While the layout of the text encourages the reader to linger upon each line, not restraining with puctuation that dictates the speed at which the poem should be read, the compression of the poem's words also give the poem a feeling of speed and rushing. The lack of punctuation gives the reader more freedom and room for interpretation, which, in the authors own words, creates "an immediate act which exists in time, transiently, and isn't atemporal, or ahistorical, or impersonal" (Croggon, alisoncroggon.blogspot.com).

The poet's frequent use of metaphor: "the lidless eye which burned", simile: "the clouds were sudden bruises" and personification/animation...